{"id":144921,"date":"2026-03-21T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144921\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:44:09","slug":"kate-micucci-reads-book-the-monster-and-puppet-show-in-nazareth-library-visit-nazareth-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144921\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Micucci reads book &#8220;The Monster and Puppet Show&#8221; in Nazareth library visit | Nazareth Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAZARETH, Pa. &#8211; Actor and singer Kate Micucci visited her Lehigh Valley hometown on Saturday to reveal a new project she&#8217;s been working on.<\/p>\n<p>She is now an author!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was at the Nazareth Memorial Library where she debuted her first-ever children&#8217;s book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Monster and Puppet Show.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Micucci read it to a group of kids. She also put on a sing-along show with the library&#8217;s ukulele orchestra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Micucci said the book is a &#8220;dream come true&#8221; and enjoyed sharing her art with her hometown community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just really really fun for me to see kids get excited about the book when I read it to everyone and see them interact, &#8217;cause a lot of places in the book where you can interact with it, so that&#8217;s really exciting and fun for me to watch,&#8221; Micucci said. &#8220;And to see everyone dance to the songs, and I wrote a song for the book, so that was really fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Micucci is also part of the musical comedy duo &#8220;Garfunkel and Oates&#8221;, and has starred in a number of TV shows, including &#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; and &#8220;Scrubs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAZARETH, Pa. &#8211; Actor and singer Kate Micucci visited her Lehigh Valley hometown on Saturday to reveal a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,5750],"class_list":["post-144921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-nazareth-northampton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}